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Lecture premiere by Roy Lancaster

'A Plantsman at Large'

Friday 8 April at 7.30pm – Magna Carta Theatre, Staines, Surrey

Roy Lancaster will be premiering his new lecture ‘A Plantsman at Large’ on Friday 8 April at 7.30pm in the Magna Carta Theatre, Staines,Surrey. Tickets are £12 per person and can be purchased by credit card on 01784 435544 and can also be bought in person at The Savill Garden.

This event is the 10^th John Bond Lecture, organised by the Friends of The Savill Garden. It is significant that Roy Lancaster is presenting it as he gave the inaugural John Bond Lecture in 2000 for The Friends of The Savill Garden in memory of John Bond, former Keeper of the Gardens at Windsor Great Park, and with whom Roy had travelled on plant hunting trips.

Roy Lancaster comments:

“As those of us lucky enough to have known him will recall John Bond was interested in a wide variety of plants and was always pleased to see new or less common plants for the first time in cultivation as well as favourite plants growing in new gardens, flower shows or in the wild. In recognition of this I shall be discussing some of the new or otherwise interesting plants which I have seen or grown during the last two years including the amazing Aspidistra grandiflora which would have left Gracie Fields speechless and Clematis urophylla one of the most beautiful winter-flowering climbers for the cool greenhouse. I shall also be visiting the little known Siskiyou Mts of S.W. Oregon to see the famous Sugar pine Pinus lambertiana whose cones are the longest of any pine and Darlingtonia californica, a most striking pitcher plant found nowhere else in the world”.

Tickets for the lecture are £12 per person and early booking is recommended. Tickets can be purchased by credit card by calling The Savill Garden from 10am to 4.30pm on 01784 435544. Tickets will be available for collection at the theatre door on the night. They can also be bought in person at the reception of The Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park. For further details, go to www.theroyallandscape.co.uk

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Notes to Editors:

Roy Lancaster’s biography is available on request.
The Friends of The Savill Garden are a group of people who support The Savill Garden through organised events and are managed by committee.
The Savill Garden is part of The Royal Landscape, which also includes the Valley Gardens and Virginia Water. It is one of England’s finest woodland and ornamental gardens with 35 acres of trees, shrubbery, ponds and streams, lawns, meadows and formal beds which are home to some of the world’s most decorative plants.
The Savill Garden is open all year (except Christmas Eve and Christmas Day). Winter opening hours - November to February - are from 10am-4.30pm. Last admission to the Garden and restaurant is 30 minutes before closing. Winter admission prices: adults £6; seniors £5.50; family £15; children under 6 free; children 6 to 16 are £2.25; groups £4.75 per person. (From March to October, The Savill Garden, restaurant and shop are open from 10am-6pm).
The Crown Estate is valued at £6.6 billion, including over 400 commercial properties in London and elsewhere, almost 146,000 hectares of agricultural land, forests, residential and commercial property in England, Scotland and Wales, over half of the UK’s foreshore, together with the seabed out to the 12-nautical-mile territorial limit. All of The Crown Estate’s revenue surplus is paid directly to the Exchequer for the benefit of all UK taxpayers, and in 2009/10 this amounted to £210.7 million.

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For more press information call Sarah Halstead, Marketing Dept, The Crown Estate, on 07918 121905 or email Sarah.Halstead@thecrownestate.co.uk



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